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Maladroit is the fourth studio album by American rock band Weezer, released on May 14, 2002, by Geffen Records.It was self-produced by the band, and was their first album to feature bassist Scott Shriner, following the departure of former bassist Mikey Welsh in 2001, although Shriner was featured in the music video for "Photograph" from the band's previous album Weezer (also known as the Green ...
In 2010 a box set of 50 books was released; this photo is from the 2014 version. ISBN 978-1-4052-5548-6. This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Children's literature portal The following is a list of Mr. Men, from the children's book series by Roger Hargreaves, also adapted into the children's television ...
René Clément (French: [ʁəne klemɑ̃]; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.He is known for directing the films The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952), Gervaise (1956), Purple Noon (1960), and Is Paris Burning (1966).
Monique Bosco was awarded the American First Novel Award in 1961 for her first novel Un amour maladroit. She received the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1970 for her novel La femme de Loth., [5] and received the Alain-Grandbois Poetry Prize for her work Miserere. [6]
Droit du seigneur [a] ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis [b] ('right of the first night'), sometimes referred to as prima nocta, [c] was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night.
Mathurin Régnier (December 21, 1573 – October 22, 1613) was a French satirist. Life ... and is not marred by the maladroit classicism of some of the Ronsardists.
D'Assoucy's position in French literature was summarized by Charles E. Scruggs (pp. 55–56): "D'Assoucy was influenced by some of the most liberal free-thinkers of his day, from the epicurian philosophy of Gassendi and La Mothe le Vayer to the unbounded hedonism of his close friend Chapelle. Unattracted by dry speculation, Dassoucy was much ...
"Heyreddin Pasha of Tunisia" was a "maladroit speaker of the [Turkish] language" who "made it to the position of grand vizier in 1878. Even though he had a fair command of written Arabic and French, his underlings could not resist making fun of his Ottoman Turkish." [36]